"Polypidom" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as the tender shoot of the oak is filled by degrees with the wood which forms within it, and hardens into a branch, that goes on increasing by perpetually new growths, so the jelly polyp of the polypidom hardens below into stone and dies incessantly at the base, while it lives on indefinitely above in its ...
— The History of a Mouthful of Bread - And its effect on the organization of men and animals • Jean Mace |
